The list of available recordings of Baroque trumpet music is growing, but this release by the U.S.-to-Germany transplant Edward H. Tarr offers some attractive pieces not often heard elsewhere. Not all the music here was composed "for the emperor," for the imperial court of the Habsburgs in Vienna, but it all comes from a general Viennese orbit. The music spans several generations from the end of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth, with some of the music written for the clarino or Baroque piccolo trumpet ...
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The list of available recordings of Baroque trumpet music is growing, but this release by the U.S.-to-Germany transplant Edward H. Tarr offers some attractive pieces not often heard elsewhere. Not all the music here was composed "for the emperor," for the imperial court of the Habsburgs in Vienna, but it all comes from a general Viennese orbit. The music spans several generations from the end of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth, with some of the music written for the clarino or Baroque piccolo trumpet. Tarr plays modern instruments, as do the members of the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. The clean, smooth readings of the music that result take away the edge that the music would have had in the large, perhaps outdoor, ceremonial settings where it would originally have been performed. But Tarr is a formidable virtuoso player, and his renditions are elegant. Consider the Trumpet Concerto No. 1 in C major of Georg von Reutter II, where the trumpet in the first movement must ascend to...
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Antonio Caldara; Ferdinand Tobias Richter; Johann Georg Reutter; Johannes Matthias Sperger. Fine. In fine packaging. Edward Tarr; Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra-Trumpets for the Emperor by Edward Tarr; Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
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